Monday, May 9, 2011

Prospect Park employs humane goose control measures

From the NY Times:

Dogs of every breed come to Prospect Park and bother the geese, but only Cleo, a black and white Border collie, is paid to do it. Her job is to save the geese by tormenting them.

Last year, federal authorities killed nearly 370 Prospect Park geese, mainly to keep them from hitting airplanes. Now, with that slaughter fresh in the minds of many people in Brooklyn, park officials have brought in Cleo to help avoid a repeat.

Cleo will patrol the lakeshore to chase the geese from land and ride a kayak to chase them from water. She will vary her activity to shake the rhythm of the geese, and she will receive help from two collie colleagues, Spanky and Samantha.

If Cleo’s constant harassment succeeds in keeping most of the geese away, Prospect Park officials hope the federal agents in charge of the culling will pass them by.

“We would really like to keep the number down low enough so this is not a target area,” said Emily Lloyd, president of the Prospect Park Alliance, the nonprofit group that helps run the park.

Her organization hired Cleo’s owners, Goose Busters, a company based in Virginia that has worked extensively in the New York region, at $725 a week for about eight weeks, or until molting season begins.


Since Queens has no such group like Prospect Park Alliance, our geese will be gassed. But at least we're vibrant and diverse!

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

So where will the geese go - Queens Airports?

Anonymous said...

Mount posters of Shulman & Stavisky in our parks to drive away the geese.

Oops, that would drive away the people too.

Granny Goose Stavisky said...

Did somebody say goose?

O-o-o-oh, I'm bent over and waiting!

Anonymous said...

Fughettaboutit Moby.

Nobody'd wanna goose you with a ten foot grab stick!

Phew!

Anonymous said...

No, that problem
is already being solved by building a Seagull attracting waste transfer station right across the bay from La Guardia, #1!

Anonymous said...

Since Queens has no such group like Prospect Park Alliance, our geese will be gassed. But at least we're vibrant and diverse!
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We are also very polite and willing to accept whatever we are told.

No one this side of Pyongyang are such passionate supporters of their political leadership.

Big Hairy Balls said...

I love roasted goose it's simply delicious. How about closing the park for 48 hours and having a controlled hunt? Give them away after the hunt. What could be better than free food? Long live Queens crapper! Long live Israel! Death to the treasonous Palestinians!

Jerry Rotondi said...

Speaking of parks,
what's holding up the creation of that promised park on the former site of St. Saviour's, Mayor Mike?

Maybe you need a good goose to get it moving along.

Anonymous said...

We should do this w/ humans too, they're far too many of them, have you ever been to Flushing?

Anonymous said...

The Nazis first used Zyclon B gas to do to humans what you're proposing...previous racist poster!

Shame on you!

Anonymous said...

It seems like whenever we get serious hacks start to post garbage on this blog.

A shame we cannot do that for all the weekly newspapers that tout how wonderful they are to the gullible seniors.

Joe said...

I'm still trying to get this right. We have perhaps over 1000 of these ducks pictured (and white swans)in Manhasset Bay park.
They don't fly and actually fight and chaise the Canadian geese out !!

Isn't it the Canadian geese that fly and land anyplace ? Why all of a sudden kill the local birds that been here since the Indians ? We had more birds and jets (with low bypass easily damaged engines) back in the 60s

Anonymous said...

We should do this w/ humans too, they're far too many of them, have you ever been to Flushing?

Nothing racist about this....THEY'RE TOO MANY HUMANS LEAVE THE GEESE ALONE!!! STOP SPITTING OUT BABIES!!

Anonymous said...

Nothing racist?

UR full-o-crap, Herr Poster!

I sounds like you would have done a better job than Himmler if you were around serving the 3rd Reich.

Yes, too many people...I agree...but gas them?

I don't think so.

Put a lid on your blind hatred before your high blood pressure finishes you off.

Anonymous said...

6 billion humans on this planet, enough is enough, let the sterilization & euthanasia commence!!!!

Anonymous said...

6 billion humans on this planet, enough is enough, let the sterilization & euthanasia commence!!!!

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Agreed. Let's start with you!

Anonymous said...

Stop raping the planet!!! too many babies!!